Such were the means taken by the Spaniards to overcome the love of liberty
in the natives of Peru.
As for the natives themselves, what few privileges they had retained were
taken from them, their meetings and festivals were forbidden, and for any
one to assume the name of Inca was declared criminal. These severe
measures were thought sufficient to intimidate the Indians, but they only
exasperated them, and they took a terrible revenge. Andres, a cousin of
Amaru, who had escaped capture, and another chief named Catari, led them
in a campaign of revenge in which they fought with the fury of despair.
The lives of five hundred Spaniards, it is said, paid the penalty for each
of the victims of that dread execution in Cuzco.
Andres besieged the city of Sorata, in which all the white families of the
vicinity had taken refuge with their treasures. The artillery of the
fortifications seemed an invulnerable defence against the poorly armed
besiegers, but Andres succeeded in making a breach by turning the mountain
streams against the walls. Once within, the exasperated Indians took a
terrible revenge, a single priest being, as we are told, the sole survivor
of the twenty thousand inhabitants.
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